Lots of Chillies

Awful as usual at keeping my blog up to date!
Big change since last blog update. Lot of flowers and lot of pods. I have already eaten 2 chillies off my Apache plant. Still a lot more pods left on the plant.

Apache

I also have pods on my Bulgarian Carrot, one of my Golden Cayenne, one of my supermarket plants and a few other plants have developing buds, open flowers and fruits.

Golden Cayenne

My window is looking very full! I have a lot of plants outside as well!

Bulgarian Carrot

Supermarket Variety

First flower

My first flower opened yesterday. My ever reliable Apache does not disappoint.

Many of the other plants have including my Bulgarian Carrot, Habanero and the young Super Chilli plants have buds. It is amazing how quickly the plants respond to a little sunshine!

In need of warmer weather!

All my seedlings for this year have come up. Not including the 21 plants I had at the time of my last update, I have 6 Yellow Peter Pepper seedlings and countless Baby Bell Pepper seedlings.

My strongest Yellow Peter Pepper seedling.

I have no more space in my room so am waiting for the weather to warm up a little before I give these seedlings new pots and a new home in the greenhouse.

The tangle of Baby Bell Pepper seedlings.

All the other seedlings are making good progress, some slower then others.

Peruvian Purple

Habanero

Aji Lemon

Rude peppers

In the 4 weeks since my last update, many more seedlings have appeared. I have now re-potted all my seedlings. I have however planted some more seeds. I have planted Yellow and Orange Baby Bell Peppers. I have also planted Yellow Peter Pepper seeds. These peppers have been entirely based on the shape of the fruit.

Amazing structure to the pepper!

I have 16 plants from this year’s seed planting so far. I have 3 Super Chilli and Aji Lemon, 2 each of Santa Fe Grande, HHW/Anaheim, Apache and Golden Cayenne and finally 1 each of Purple Peruvian and Serrano.

Newly planted seeds and seedlings.

HHW/Anaheim seedling

My other 5 plants from previous growing season are doing well and showing new growth. I have recently re-potted my Habanero and Bulgarian Carrot into larger pots. 

"Supermarket Annum"

Bulgarian Carrot in a new pot with HHW/Anaheim seedling

Seedlings

After the first Apache seedling popped its head out of the soil, another one did. Since then, maybe prematurely I have re-potted them. As usual I became rather eager to plant more of my seeds.

I have 3 seedlings from the seeds I planted 2 weeks ago. Two of the Anaheim/HHW (Hungarian Hot Wax) seeds have germinated and I have 1 Santa Fe Grande seedling. To save on space I may end of re-potting these very soon as well. I have been quite overambitious with the amount of space I have.

HHW/Anaheim seedlings at the front

I have also planted 5 other types of chillies. These are Aji Lemon, Super Chilli, Golden Cayenne, Peruvian Purple and Serrano.

Big change in one day!

One of the Apache seeds has germinated and poked its head out of the soil. A second seedling is not far away. Looks like my Heated Propagator investment was a good one!

Unfortunately I have a crappy camera so the picture quality is quite rubbish!

New equipment

Due to the harsh cold weather of late, germinating seeds has been a difficult process. To help me with this task, I have purchased a Heated Propagator. I didn't spend any major dollar on it, just got a nice simple one from B&Q.

My Apache seeds that I planted 3 weeks haven't done anything. I don't expect them to now, it was just too cold. I have places them inside my propagator (left container in above picture).

I planted some more seeds today as another test for the conditions. I choose 2 of each Santa Fe Grande, Bulgarian Carrot and Hungarian Hot Wax / Anaheim. Unfortunatley due to my stupidity at the end of last year, I mixed up the HHW and Anaheim seeds.

My other 5 plants haven't shown much change, they are struggling on as usual. I need some warm and sunny weather!